In 2009, Gurchenko starred in the last film
The last film with the participation of Lyudmila Markovna was released in 2009 - “Motley Twilight”. The actress played the main role - a famous woman who helps an aspiring artist break into fame. What’s most interesting is that the plot of this film has a lot in common with the real story that happened in Gurchenko’s life - she once also helped Oleg Akkuratov, a blind but incredibly talented pianist.
Having played her last role, Lyudmila Gurchenko took part in several more television projects, but she never acted in films or TV series. A month before her death, the actress took part in a biographical benefit film, which was filmed in Kyiv.
Lyudmila Gurchenko passed away on March 30, 2011. Nine years have passed since then, but the public still adores her. Films with the participation of this talented actress do not leave the screens and do not lose their status as cult films.
Fans of the actress have noted her individuality and charisma many times; many like her low-pitched voice and unique, very recognizable style of acting.
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When Akhmadov subsequently invited well-known glossy publications to publish the photo shoot, they refused. They say it’s beautiful, but the concept itself (Gurchenko posed next to a half-naked man) doesn’t suit them. Aslan was sincerely upset.
After Gurchenko’s death, four years later, in 2015, Akhmadov presented that very unique photo project, organized an exhibition, calling his brainchild “My Lucy”. All visitors were able to see unique photographs taken during the life of the great actress. Aslan admits that after Gurchenko’s death, the same glossy publications that at one time refused to publish quickly became more active. They offered fabulous money for photographs, but the photographer refused everyone on principle and organized an exhibition in memory of Lyudmila Markovna himself.
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Life of Lyudmila Gurchenko in photographs (22 photos)
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12 November 2021 19:07
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On November 12, 1935, Lyudmila Markovna Gurchenko, a future Soviet and Russian theater and film actress, pop singer, director, screenwriter, and writer, was born in the city of Kharkov.
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1. Lyudmila Markovna Gurchenko was born on November 12, 1935 in Kharkov. She was the only child in the family.
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2. In 1953, Gurchenko entered the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography on the course of S. Gerasimov and T. Makarova. Five years later, in 1958, she graduated from the institute and until 1964 she worked at the Film Actor Studio Theatre.
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3. Five years later, in 1958, she graduated from the institute and until 1964 she worked at the Film Actor Studio Theatre. From 1964 to 1966 - actress of the Sovremennik Theater. In this theater L. Gurchenko played mainly minor roles and participated in crowd scenes. Lyudmila Gurchenko made her film debut in Jan Fried’s film “The Road of Truth” (1956)
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4. In 1956, E. Ryazanov offered third-year student Lyudmila Gurchenko the main role of Lenochka Krylova in the musical comedy “Carnival Night.” Filming lasted only five months. The premiere took place on December 28. The film brought the actress resounding success and triumph. The song “Five Minutes” instantly spread across the country. L. Gurchenko has established herself as an actress with bright vocal and pop abilities.
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5. In 1958, her talent was brilliantly demonstrated in another film - with an emphatically musical title - “Girl with a Guitar”. In this film, the young actress appeared sincere, believing in goodness, cheerful, and full of strength.
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6. Then Lyudmila Gurchenko starred in the melodrama “Walking” (1961), the dramas “Baltic Sky” (1961), “Workers’ Village” (1966), the military drama “Roman and Francesca” (1960), the farce “The Marriage of Balzaminov” (1965 ) (pictured), sports comedy "Bicycle Tamers" (1963).
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7. And yet, in the 1960s and early 1970s, Gurchenko was hardly noticeable, even continuing to act regularly. So, until the release in 1974 of the production melodrama “Old Walls” (State Prize of the RSFSR, 1976), in which the actress played the director of a weaving factory, but without the touch of typical features of a Soviet leader, Gurchenko, with her more than 30 roles at that time, remained as if excluded from big cinema.
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8. In the 1970s, musical films with Gurchenko’s participation were released literally one after another. In 1972, she starred in the film "Tobacco Captain", in 1973 - in the film "The Circus Lights Up", the following year - in "Straw Hat" (pictured), in 1975 - in "Sky Swallows", and a year later in the film “Mom”.
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9. For the sake of her role in the musical film “Mama,” Gurchenko even refused the role of the general’s wife in one of Mikhalkov’s best films, “An Unfinished Piece for a Mechanical Piano.” During the filming of the film “Mom”, the clown Oleg Popov fell on the actress, as a result of which she suffered a fracture of one of the bones of her leg. Filming continued in a cast.
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10. During this period, directors make full use of the actress’s musical abilities, however, Lyudmila Gurchenko is trying to break out of the role of “pop singer” imposed on her. She wanted to play dramatic roles and achieved her goal.
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11. During this period, directors make full use of the actress’s musical abilities, however, Lyudmila Gurchenko is trying to break out of the role of “pop singer” imposed on her. She wanted to play dramatic roles and achieved her goal. Her roles became interesting - Rita in the melodrama “The Beloved Woman of Mechanic Gavrilov” (1982) and waitress Vera Nefedova in Eldar Ryazanov’s lyrical comedy “Station for Two” (1983). These works were awarded - “For Best Actress” - at the Manila Film Festival (1982) and VKF-83 in Leningrad.
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12. In the same 1983, Lyudmila Gurchenko was recognized as the best actress of the year in a poll by the Soviet Screen magazine.
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13. In the 90s, the years of the collapse of Soviet cinema, the actress acted less often. Little good material was offered, and the actress had to approach roles more selectively. The actress skillfully repeated previous images (“Prokhindiada-2″, 1993), again played independent women clothed with power (“Inhuman”, 1990; “White Clothes”, 1992), tried to defiantly break out even from the framework of the plot narrative, turning the film into a pop a monologue by an actress (“Listen, Fellini!..”, 1993) or a musical benefit performance (“I Love”, 1993).
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14. In search of new and unusual roles, she was forced to turn to the private theater.
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15. In 2000, the actress starred in another film by E. Ryazanov, “Old Nags.”
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16. L. Gurchenko’s entire creative career is accompanied by concert activity. L. Gurchenko's stage show is a one-man show, where she is the set designer, costume designer, and director.
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17. In 1982, Lyudmila Gurchenko’s book “My Adult Childhood” was published. Later, the actress published the books “Applause” and “Lucy, Stop!” (2003).
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18. The actress, who once starred in the film “The Recipe for Her Youth,” never hid her years and the fact that she repeatedly went to the plastic surgeon’s table. Among Russian celebrities, she was a kind of record holder for the number of plastic surgeries she had undergone: according to various sources, she had about 17 of them. In recent years, surgeons warned the actress that operations at her age were unsafe, but she stated that she was obliged to look good and had no intention of leaving the stage until death.
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19. Lyudmila Markovna Gurchenko’s last role was in the musical, which premiered on her 75th birthday – November 12, 2010. This show is called “Markovna. Reboot”, which combined a musical teleplay and a variety show.
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19. Lyudmila Gurchenko’s first husband was Boris Andronikashvili, screenwriter and historian, son of the writer B. Pilnyak and cousin of the Georgian directors Georgiy and Eldar Shengelaya. They had a daughter, Masha (1959), from whom Lyudmila Gurchenko has a granddaughter, Elena. Gurchenko's second husband was actor Alexander Fadeev, third - Joseph Kobzon, fourth - musician Konstantin Kuperweis. Gurchenko’s last husband was producer Sergei Senin (pictured), whom she met during the filming of the film “Sex Fairy Tale” based on Vladimir Nabokov.
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20. Shortly before her death, Lyudmila Gurchenko received a serious injury - she broke her hip while walking. The actress underwent surgery. In early March, Gurchenko was discharged from the hospital and returned home. Sources in medical circles report that complications after the operation could also have caused the actress’s death.
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After these evening gatherings, Akhmadov and Gurchenko became practically inseparable. They often appeared at social events, in different cities and even countries. For example, when Lyudmila Markovna came to Kyiv for her seventy-fifth birthday, she took Akhmadov with her.
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They walked along Khreshchatyk arm in arm, while the official husband of the artist Senin modestly walked somewhere behind. In the same way, he sat in a corner at social events, watching his wife pose for photographers with a young stylist.
Lyudmila Markovna made a sensational confession on the air of Andrei Malakhov’s program. She said that she was in love with Aslan: “Do you know how he hugs me? Tight tight". Such a statement somewhat confused the journalist, and he hastened to change the topic.
Fatal evening
The death of Lyudmila Gurchenko came suddenly. On the evening of March 30, a few weeks after the operation, the actress and her husband Sergei Senin were at home, watching a musical film about her. Suddenly she felt pain in her heart, began to choke, fell to the floor and lost consciousness. Lyudmila Markovna’s husband immediately called an ambulance, and at that time he tried to perform artificial respiration, but it did not help. Gurchenko died instantly.
One of the last photos of the actress
The ambulance drove forty minutes, getting to the actress’s house through Moscow traffic jams, but the doctors could no longer help her, although they tried to start her heart for another thirty minutes. Eventually it became clear that resuscitation efforts would not be successful.
What Lyudmila Gurchenko died from was determined with precision by an autopsy. As a result of a complex operation and a sedentary lifestyle, she developed venous thrombosis in the operated area of her leg, which, in turn, caused a pulmonary embolism.
This condition occurs suddenly and very quickly when a blood clot blocks a large artery of the lungs or one of its branches. A recent operation, advanced age and low mobility caused a postoperative complication - thromboembolism. It was impossible to save her through the efforts of the ambulance doctors.
